In a packed amphitheatre, Cyprus University of Technology welcomed Saswati Saha Mitra, as the keynote speaker at the annual World Usability Day. Saswati Saha Mitra leads Uber’s Global UX Research team. Spread across 5 continents, her team keeps Uber accountable to its global user base. The event was organized by the Social Computing Research Centre […]

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The “Women Workshop on Educational Robotics [WeEdR]” successfully took place on the 24th – 25th February 2018, at the Ιδιωτική Σχολή Φόρουμ – Forum Private School! The workshops were done in two full days, including introductory presentations on Educational Robotics and several hours of hands-on per day by Vaso Constantinou. Female participants of all ages, mostly mothers […]

iLRN 2019 June 23rd – 27th, London, UK Special Track Chairs Mina Johnson, United States Embodied Games Andri Ioannou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Interaction Lab Sharon Hsiao United States Arizona State University About Special Tracks at iLRN Special Tracks are intended to be a forum for quality scientific research, which will be presented in […]

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Since 2014, the Cyprus Interaction lab organizes the Learning and Collaboration Technologies Conference, affiliated with the HCI INTERNATIONAL Conference. This year’s conference is at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA in July 2019 See 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION For indicative topics/keywords of the broad spectrum of issues to be addressed, please see LCT: 6th […]

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The Cyprus Interaction Lab was approached by the Youth Board of Cyprus to organise and facilitate an activity aiming to rethink the online counseling service it currently offers to young people. CIL, having implemented various adaptations of Google Ventures’ inspired Design Sprint in the past, adjusted the method to an one-day sprint that took 3 […]

The second meeting of the INTELed Teacher Professional Development (TPD) program was organized and delivered successfully by the INTELed CUT research team (Dr Andri Ioannou, Dr Yiannis Georgiou, Mrs Nicoletta Pantela, Dr Panayiotis Kosmas), on November 3rd 2018, at the Cyprus University of Technology. The meeting was attended by 28 in-service primary education teachers, working […]

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The Cyprus Interaction Lab would like to invite interested candidates to apply for a PhD for January 2019 in the following research topics. Deadline for both positions is 26th of November. Instructions on how to apply here: https://www.cut.ac.cy/news/article/?languageId=1&fbclid=IwAR3619wjvWjMGvMShoaaUck-YemiEubVJXpYrKrNwYvf6lkmATluPTOl5XY&contentId=140750 Nurturing and stimulating student’s creativity with Educational Robotics in school’s makerspace Description: This post involves multidisciplinary research […]

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The Cyprus Interaction Lab (CIL – http://www.cyprusinteractionlab.com/) of the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology is exploring the possibility of hiring Project Managers for full-time or part-time engagement, depending on qualifications and availability. CIL studies the interaction of people with technology in various fields. The lab aims to: – […]

The kickoff meeting of the INTELed Teacher Professional Development (TPD) program was organized and delivered successfully by the INTELed CUT research team (Dr Andri Ioannou, Dr Yiannis Georgiou & Mrs Nicoletta Pantela), on October 6th 2018, at the Cyprus University of Technology. The kickoff meeting was attended by 35 in-service primary education teachers working either […]

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The kickoff meeting of the ENGINITE Vocational Education and Training (VET) programme was organized and delivered successfully by the ENGINITE CUT research team (Dr Andri Ioannou, Dr Yiannis Georgiou & Mrs Nicoletta Pantela), on October 2nd 2018, at the Cyprus University of Technology. The main aim of the ENGINITE project (https://www.enginite.eu/) is to design and […]

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A two-day design sprint workshop took at the Youth Makerspace Larnaka (https://www.facebook.com/makerspacelarnaka/) on Friday and Saturday, 12-13 October. During the workshop, participants discussed, explored, proposed solutions and developed prototypes (applications, systems, etc.) with a goal of providing useful information for responsible gaming, as well as information for the risks posed by non-responsible participation. The prototypes developed […]

INTERACT 2019 (http://www.interact2019.org/) is the latest of a series of conferences on Human-Computer Interaction organized under the aegis of the Technical Committee 13 of the UNESCO International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The IFIP TC 13 aims at developing the science and technology of the interaction between humans and computing devices. The first INTERACT conference […]

The Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies [ RISE ] (http://RISE.org.cy) with additional support from members of the Cyprus Interaction Lab had a strong presence at Βραδιά του Ερευνητή / Researchers’ Night with the participation of more than 15 academics, researchers and administration officers affiliated with RISE and collaborating research labs. As per annual tradition, the Research […]

On August 31st 2018, the Cyprus Interaction Lab (https://cyprusinteractionlab.com) of the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology, in collaboration with the Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging Technologies (http://www.rise.org.cy) and the MakerSpace Larnaka of the Youth Board of Cyprus (https://www.facebook.com/makerspacelarnaka/), have organized and delivered an innovative workshop for […]

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From 9th-18th July 2018, the Cyprus Interaction Lab delivered two innovative educational workshops in the context of the annual summer school of the Cyprus University of Technology for 5-15 years-old children. The educational activities were developed and implemented by researchers of the lab, under the supervision of Dr. Andri Ioannou, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of […]

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Cyprus Interaction Lab is seeking expressions of interest for Research positions in the area of User Experience and Design. The Cyprus Interaction Lab is seeking expressions of interest from outstanding, Postdoctoral candidates, Ph.D. graduates, or MA/MSc holders who have a background in Ηuman-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience (UX) or Design Thinking (Methodologies and Theory) who are […]

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